Overview
- Approaches various health and environmental risks from different disciplines in a language understandable to all readers
- Discusses several diseases that are a consequence of bad habits of people and, therefore, easy to prevent
- Discusses several environmental issues that have been little studied and are the basis of many serious disasters
- Focuses on Latin America
Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 23)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Human Behaviour Affecting Health
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Environment and Disasters
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preventing Health and Environmental Risks in Latin America
Editors: Ma. Luisa Marván, Esperanza López-Vázquez
Series Title: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73799-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73798-0Published: 26 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73799-7Published: 17 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2367-4024
Series E-ISSN: 2367-4032
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 266
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Health, Natural Hazards, Public Health, Environmental Sociology, Health Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology